MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Whether it’s a Monday night in Los Angeles in a league that feels like it’s changing overnight or a Friday night in West Virginia in the league that invented this brand of football, we can’t watch a certain kind of game without a chicken-egg debate. Are the offenses amazing? Or do the defenses stink? Rather than engage in that debate—when the answer is clearly yes to both questions—it’s probably better to simply ask another question.
Oklahoma 59, West Virginia 56 absolutely entertained. It had stakes. The victorious Sooners earned the right to play Texas—the only team that has beaten Oklahoma all year—for the Big 12 title next week in Arlington, Texas.